Justin Moat

8.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
65 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Justin Moat is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Justin Moat has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 20 papers in Ecological Modeling and 18 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Justin Moat's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (20 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (17 papers) and Plant and animal studies (14 papers). Justin Moat is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (20 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (17 papers) and Plant and animal studies (14 papers). Justin Moat collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Brazil. Justin Moat's co-authors include Steven P. Bachman, Javier de la Torre, Ben Scott, Andrew Hill, Aaron P. Davis, Susana Baena, Tadesse Woldemariam Gole, Neil Brummitt, Eimear Nic Lughadha and Paul Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Justin Moat

62 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Supporting Red List threat assessments with GeoCAT: geospatial conservation assessment tool

2011 1.4k citations Steven P. Bachman, Justin Moat et al. ZooKeys profile →
The Impact of Climate Change on Indigenous Arabica Coffee (Coffea arabica): Predicting Future Trends and Identifying Priorities

2012 334 citations Aaron P. Davis, Tadesse Woldemariam Gole et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Justin Moat United Kingdom	32	2.5k	1.2k	1.2k	915	745	65	4.6k
Eimear Nic Lughadha United Kingdom	35	2.8k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	1.3k 1.4×	895 1.2×	97	4.4k
Rafaël Govaerts United Kingdom	31	2.0k 0.8×	1.5k 1.3×	1.2k 1.0×	734 0.8×	449 0.6×	95	3.7k
Michelle van der Bank South Africa	27	2.4k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	1.9k 1.6×	1.1k 1.2×	542 0.7×	112	4.5k
Thomas A. Kursar United States	48	2.9k 1.2×	2.8k 2.3×	928 0.8×	2.7k 3.0×	549 0.7×	104	7.4k
George D. Weiblen United States	43	4.1k 1.7×	2.4k 2.0×	1.1k 0.9×	2.5k 2.7×	660 0.9×	98	6.3k
Zuzana Münzbergová Czechia	40	2.2k 0.9×	3.0k 2.5×	674 0.6×	2.2k 2.5×	487 0.7×	217	5.2k
Gideon F. Smith South Africa	24	1.6k 0.7×	2.0k 1.7×	765 0.7×	517 0.6×	327 0.4×	475	3.6k
Luciano Paganucci de Queiroz Brazil	37	3.2k 1.3×	1.8k 1.5×	1.6k 1.4×	889 1.0×	176 0.2×	215	5.0k
Colin E. Hughes United Kingdom	38	3.8k 1.5×	2.0k 1.7×	1.8k 1.5×	1.4k 1.6×	474 0.6×	110	6.0k
Félix Forest United Kingdom	47	5.0k 2.0×	2.6k 2.1×	3.1k 2.7×	1.6k 1.8×	733 1.0×	205	8.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Justin Moat

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Fields of papers citing papers by Justin Moat

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Justin Moat

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Justin Moat. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Justin Moat based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Justin Moat. Justin Moat is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Plumb, William J., Jonathan Stocks, Laura J. Kelly, et al.. (2025). Rapid polygenic adaptation in a wild population of ash trees under a novel fungal epidemic. Science. 388(6754). 1422–1425. 1 indexed citations

Eisenlohr, Pedro V., et al.. (2025). Biodiversity at Risk: Climate Change Impacts on Brazil’s Semiarid Caatinga Flora. Earth Systems and Environment.

Davis, Aaron P., Martin Cheek, Justin Moat, et al.. (2025). Genomic data define species delimitation in Liberica coffee with implications for crop development and conservation. Nature Plants. 11(9). 1729–1738.

Holland, Ross J., Cecilia Chavana‐Bryant, R. L. Levy, et al.. (2024). Giant sequoia ( Sequoiadendron giganteum ) in the UK: carbon storage potential and growth rates. Royal Society Open Science. 11(3). 230603–230603. 1 indexed citations

Davis, Aaron P., et al.. (2021). Arabica-like flavour in a heat-tolerant wild coffee species. Nature Plants. 7(4). 413–418. 38 indexed citations

Farooq, Harith, Josué A. R. Azevedo, Dominic J. Bennett, et al.. (2020). WEGE: A new metric for ranking locations for biodiversity conservation. Diversity and Distributions. 26(11). 1456–1466. 16 indexed citations

Bachman, Steven P., et al.. (2020). Rapid Least Concern: towards automating Red List assessments. ZooKeys. 8. e47018–e47018. 27 indexed citations

Whaley, Oliver Q., et al.. (2020). Ecology and diagnosis of Enallodiplosis discordis (Diptera:Cecidomyiidae). Revista Peruana de Biología. 27(4). 451–482. 3 indexed citations

Stevenson, Philip C., Martin I. Bidartondo, Timothy R. Cavagnaro, et al.. (2020). The state of the world’s urban ecosystems: What can we learn from trees, fungi, and bees?. Plants People Planet. 2(5). 482–498. 27 indexed citations

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Moat, Justin, et al.. (2020). To clean or not to clean: Cleaning open‐source data improves extinction risk assessments for threatened plant species. Conservation Science and Practice. 2(12). 20 indexed citations

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Bystriakova, Nadia, et al.. (2019). A Preliminary Evaluation of The Karst Flora of Brazil Using Collections Data. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 17037–17037. 19 indexed citations

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Baena, Susana, Justin Moat, Oliver Q. Whaley, & Doreen S. Boyd. (2017). Identifying species from the air: UAVs and the very high resolution challenge for plant conservation. PLoS ONE. 12(11). e0188714–e0188714. 107 indexed citations

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Moat, Justin, Jenny Williams, Susana Baena, et al.. (2017). Resilience potential of the Ethiopian coffee sector under climate change. Nature Plants. 3(7). 17081–17081. 180 indexed citations

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Beresford‐Jones, David, Oliver Q. Whaley, Justin Moat, et al.. (2015). Re-evaluating the resource potential of lomas fog oasis environments for Preceramic hunter–gatherers under past ENSO modes on the south coast of Peru. Quaternary Science Reviews. 129. 196–215. 45 indexed citations

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Paun, Ovidiu, Richard M. Bateman, Michael F. Fay, et al.. (2011). Altered gene expression and ecological divergence in sibling allopolyploids of Dactylorhiza (Orchidaceae). BMC Evolutionary Biology. 11(1). 113–113. 58 indexed citations

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Bachman, Steven P., Justin Moat, Andrew Hill, Javier de la Torre, & Ben Scott. (2011). Supporting Red List threat assessments with GeoCAT: geospatial conservation assessment tool. ZooKeys. 150(150). 117–126. 1449 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gardens, Kew Royal Botanic, Justin Moat, & Paul Smith. (2007). Atlas of the vegetation of Madagascar : Atlas de la vegetation de Madagascar. 90 indexed citations

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Beentje, Henk, A. Cameron, Justin Moat, et al.. (2007). Atlas of the Vegetation of Madagascar. 183 indexed citations

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Roberts, David L., Justin Moat, & Greg McInerny. (2005). What have herbaria ever done for us? The role of herbaria in conservation assessments. Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent). 4 indexed citations

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Lughadha, Eimear Nic, Wilhelm Barthlott, Neil Brummitt, et al.. (2005). Measuring the fate of plant diversity: towards a foundation for future monitoring and opportunities for urgent action. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 360(1454). 359–372. 69 indexed citations

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